<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Welcome to the new Board members. The Developing world looks forward for new initiatives, where in Open Source GIS can provide transparent administration.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Ravi</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Seven (aka Arnulf) <seven@arnulf.us><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> board@lists.osgeo.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 8, 2013 7:45 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Board] New board, new roles<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>On 07.09.2013 20:12, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:<br>> Hey Arnulf,<br>> <br>> thanks for all your hard work, it's really appreciated. Also thanks<br>> to the people who helped you ofcourse.<br>> <br>> I'd be happy to look into electronic voting if no one else is<br>> interested.<br>> <br>> Best regards, Bart<br><br>Bart,<br>this is great, thanks.<br><br>I have started a Wiki page for a work group (sub committee, name it as<br>you think appropriate) with a few notes of what we need to do:<br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Electronic_Voting" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Electronic_Voting</a><br><br>Please take ownership and let me know what else you need
from me. Maybe<br>directly after the elections is a good point in time to ping the broader<br>membership and ask if anybody else is interested in being involved. We<br>have planned to do some cleaning up and housekeeping of OSGeo policies,<br>procedures and bylaws. This may well result in additional or different<br>criteria for the electronic voting.<br><br>If we are really quick we might even manage to meet for a birds of a<br>feather session at FOSS4G to flesh out this web page and get started<br>properly.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Arnulf<br><br>> Sent from my iPhone<br>> <br>> On Sep 7, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Arnulf Christl<br>> <<a ymailto="mailto:arnulf.christl@metaspatial.net" href="mailto:arnulf.christl@metaspatial.net">arnulf.christl@metaspatial.net</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> Dear board, we updated the main website: <br>> <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html"
target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html</a><br>> <br>> and the Wiki: <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors</a><br>> <br>> and added the elections results: <br>> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2013_Results" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Election_2013_Results</a><br>> <br>> I hope that this covers all places where we list the board members.<br>> If not please let me know or fix yourself. If you fix yourself it<br>> would be appreciated if you would also add the link to this list (for<br>> future CROs): <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Voting" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Voting</a><br>> <br>> Please note that you should probably nominate a new Secretary asap. <br>> Michael kindly confirmed that he will
follow up tagging Charter <br>> Members as inactive if they failed to vote in two consecutive <br>> elections and update the list with addresses. Next year will be the <br>> first where the "inactive status" regulation finally comes into<br>> action.<br>> <br>> For next year we highly recommend to switch to electronic elections. <br>> The manual effort is way too high with more than 180 members. In<br>> total the elections took a good 60h of work split between three<br>> people, around 200 individual mails and more than 100 Wiki and web<br>> site edits. That is a kilobyte more than just for fun. Greg Buehler<br>> manages the electronic votes for OGC (and they have loads of them all<br>> the time) and he kindly offered to share his experience. Who would be<br>> the counterpart on our side? I'd be happy to report from the last<br>> two elections but will not be able to implement anything.<br>> <br>> After
FOSS4G we will start the Big Cleanup of governance docs,<br>> bylaws, rules, regulations, policies and procedures. Ugh. Why did I<br>> just say this?<br>> <br>> Have fun, Arnulf<br>> <br>>> _______________________________________________ Board mailing list <br>>> <a ymailto="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a> <br>>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board</a><br>> _______________________________________________ Board mailing list <br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:Board@lists.osgeo.org">Board@lists.osgeo.org</a> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board</a><br>> <br><br>- -- <br>Exploring Space, Time and Mind<br><a href="http://arnulf.us/"
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